This is an analysis of the poem My Hour that begins with:
Day after day behold me plying
My pen within an office drear;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcdcd eXefaXac ebebagag hihiadad cjcjdkdk ckcklllX cjcjffff dedehdhd ffffajaj amamlnln
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110101110 11011101 01011101 11110101 011101010 01010101 0111100010 01010111 010101010 0101010010 010101010 11110101 010101010 01010111 111110010 110100110 1101011010 11110101 010100010 11010111 110101010 11010101 010101010 11010101 1101011110 11010101 111101010 01010101 101101010 11010101 110100110 01010101 010101010 11010011 110111010 11110101 111101011 11111101 110111111 11110111 111101110 01010101 011101010 01001111 010111110 01011101 011101010 010111100 110111110 11011101 110001110 11010101 111101010 110101111 111101010 11010001 010111011 01010101 010110011 01010111 111111010 11110111 110100110 11010101 110111010 11011101 1101110010 01011101 110001010 11111101 010110110 11011101 111111110 01100101 111101010 11110101 110111010 11011101 1111001010 01010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, to, strange, and, oh, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, i, and, strange, with, the, oh are repeated.
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- summary of My Hour;
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